Oil | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 85
Greenpeace Boards Shell Vessel in Protest of Arctic Plans
Arctic-drilling protesters from Greenpeace climbed aboard a Royal Dutch Shell Plc oil rig Monday as it was transported across the Pacific Ocean northwest of Hawaii. Six Greenpeace members approached the rig, the Polar...
Romanian Oil, Mining Investments Suffer Violence in Mali
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Romanian security officer on Saturday from a manganese mining project in northern Burkina Faso, near the border with Mali’s lawless desert north, the company and a security source...
US Oil Production for 2014 at 100 Year High
U.S. crude oil production surged last year by the largest volume in more than 100 years. American producers pumped an additional 1.2 million barrels per day of crude oil and condensate in 2014 compared with the year b...
PEMEX Resumes Repairs to Rig Damaged by Fire, Search Continues for Missing Workers
Four days after a deadly fire damaged a Gulf of Mexico oil-drilling platform, Mexican officials on Sunday said the search continues for three missing workers while the repairs have begun to resume production at the fa...
China Hopes for US Style Shale Oil Boom
In the coming decade, China’s natural gas market is expected to undergo robust growth fueled by a number of environmental and economic drivers. A much discussed natural gas strategy for China is to develop its s...
Morocco to Lessen Reliance on Imported Energy
Visiting the beautiful country of Morocco for the first time made me wonder how this country of 33 million people, 447,000 square kilometers in area and $104 billion (Dh382 billion) in gross domestic product is managi...
UK Concerns Rise Over Proposed Fracking Regulations
Anti-fracking campaigners have accused the shale industry of wanting companies “to be allowed to mark their own homework” by suggesting independent checks on wells could be done in-house. A report by the R...
Argentina Threatens Legal Action Over Falkland Island Drilling Activity
Argentina is threatening to take legal action against Britain over oil drilling off the coast of the Falkland Islands. Three fuel companies registered in London declared that there are untapped reserves to be tested. ...
